Have I missed something here?
I produce using Live, and inevitably my session view ends up littered with 30-60 tracks. I spend WAY to much time scrolling from L - R in my session view.
Cubase uses folder tracks to hierarchically contain and hide sub-tracks. Is there anything like that? If not, any other tips???
Thanks
Keeping my session neat and tidy???
nothing beats it...My theory on organizing tracks:
- all sampled sounds go in a rack together (mostly drums)
- all tracks are labeled with whats' in them. That is: Audio, MIDI, or Inst.
-- Audio denotes essentially a through bus, there is neither MIDI nor an Instrument, but there may be effects. In: Audio, Out: Audio
-- MIDI is a track that has no Instrument or Audio, though it may have MIDI effects. In: MIDI, Out: MIDI
-- Inst has an instrument, so it can have any kind of effect, MIDI, or Audio, and it must have a synthesizer. In: MIDI, Out: Audio
It ends up looking pretty Organized. Here is the template I use to create new sets at the moment.
Here's what it looks like in:
Arrangement View:
See how all the tracks have their contents at the end? I put it at the end, because the whole title isn't visible in Session view. There I want to see what's in the track, not what kind of track it is.
Session View
Drum Kit Detail
All the drum submixing and drum returns are hidden inside the drum rack:
You see how, once you get to 3(!) levels of nested drum racks, you can route the output of a track, rather than relying on sends? That's the best way I've found to be able to do a submix. As you can see, I have submixes for the 4 different sound types used in the drum rack.
Hope the helps keep your sets organized,
Chris
- all sampled sounds go in a rack together (mostly drums)
- all tracks are labeled with whats' in them. That is: Audio, MIDI, or Inst.
-- Audio denotes essentially a through bus, there is neither MIDI nor an Instrument, but there may be effects. In: Audio, Out: Audio
-- MIDI is a track that has no Instrument or Audio, though it may have MIDI effects. In: MIDI, Out: MIDI
-- Inst has an instrument, so it can have any kind of effect, MIDI, or Audio, and it must have a synthesizer. In: MIDI, Out: Audio
It ends up looking pretty Organized. Here is the template I use to create new sets at the moment.
Here's what it looks like in:
Arrangement View:
See how all the tracks have their contents at the end? I put it at the end, because the whole title isn't visible in Session view. There I want to see what's in the track, not what kind of track it is.
Session View
Drum Kit Detail
All the drum submixing and drum returns are hidden inside the drum rack:
You see how, once you get to 3(!) levels of nested drum racks, you can route the output of a track, rather than relying on sends? That's the best way I've found to be able to do a submix. As you can see, I have submixes for the 4 different sound types used in the drum rack.
Hope the helps keep your sets organized,
Chris